When foreign naval critics fell fou! of the daring experiment which led to the construction of the Dreadnought, "Panch" remarked ironically that "we could at least console ourselves with the knowledge of having led them into the same mistake, for they were all copying our example." The witticism is recalled in connexion with the new Indomitable class of cerniser, which ix the subject of a startling: article in the Paris" Matin". According to this journal the Indomitable
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